[HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT] mtgTheSource.com's 5 Year Anniversary Tourney!!!

Sounds like an awesome event. I'll bring 5 people in my car from CT, we had a blast in Syracuse last weekend.

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Originally Posted by KillemallCFH

VA would make it very hard for both MA people and Canada people to make it. That doesn't really seem like an even trade off so that a couple of Southerners can make it. Syracuse seems to be the most centralized location, and has proven capable of getting large numbers to attend.

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We had 51 players last summer and 50 players at the last tournament in March. People from NY traveled to the event just like we travel to their events. I know that some people who are further away might not make it, but we might get more people from here as well. Most NY tournaments don't average more than the VA tournaments. The tournament this last Saturday being the major exception and it had more people than any east coast tournament that I know of.

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Originally Posted by Pinder

I'll be there. How much of the Northwest wants to come with me?

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Pending money & school, I will be there.

I can't wait for this tournament. This is gonna be kick-ass. All of rochester will obv. be in attendance.

I'll be in, would be nice if it ended up in the Cuse, either way though, I'm there.

It should obviously be Cuse or VA because that is where the most concentrated Legacy areas are. As for me, I vote Cuse because then you get everyone from New England and Canada

I'd love to go to this if I can hop on someone's go-machine there. I'm stranded otherwise.

I really don't think that it can be anywhere else except Syracuse. To be fair, when this site first took off, all of the active moderators (including myself at the time) were from Syracuse. I will help Nightmare set up this event, considering I believe that my Big Arse tournaments were the start of all these new big legacy tournaments and DLD's. My tournament organization skills pwn.

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One would hope the local TO/go-getter would set up all the logistics (they already have a date to work with). Trying to do so from one person/area would, indeed, be a nightmare (no pun intended). And the online Source-off was more along the lines of a wistful hope. Obviously that would have to be done afterward, over a period of time. But most people are not going to be able to make any one tournament, why not encourage other locales to be part of the concept/event?

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How can I help?

Awesome, I think I may have to make the trip.
I'm in Dedham (Boston Area) for those thinking of carpooling.

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Originally Posted by TrialByFire

It should obviously be Cuse or VA because that is where the most concentrated Legacy areas are. As for me, I vote Cuse because then you get everyone from New England and Canada

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I'm thinking it should be right in the middle of the two so that both travel the same distance. Boston perhaps :smile:
10 hours from VA and 6 from cuse.

Not Boston. You could shorten the New York time and keep the Virgina the same by moving it to the west. This also cuts out Boston, reducing traffic and cutting out that whole maze that Boston is.

Columbus, Ohio is about equidistant between Syracuse and NoVA, less than seven hours from Chicago, St. Louis, and Nashville, and not quite as egregiously expensive for anyone from the West Coast. The last major Legacy tourny there also saw considerable attendendance, so it's quite possible that we'd get a number of local players who aren't too into the metagame but have (possibly) fun memories of GP Flash. Everyone wins!*




*Except Massachusetts. Who cares?

If a date and city can be nailed down soon, Pinder and I are in. If you wait until a month in advance and plane tickets are $600/each round trip, well, then you can Top 8 with bad decks because we won't make it.

Also, you can be fracking lightweights about beer and no one will be able to make fun of you. Seriously, East Coast = lightweights (except for Nightmare, who drank a whole bunch, and therefore earned his drunken-ness). The rest of you ought to be ashamed.

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Originally Posted by AngryTroll

If a date and city can be nailed down soon, Pinder and I are in. If you wait until a month in advance and plane tickets are $600/each round trip, well, then you can Top 8 with bad decks because we won't make it.

Also, you can be fracking lightweights about beer and no one will be able to make fun of you. Seriously, East Coast = lightweights (except for Nightmare, who drank a whole bunch, and therefore earned his drunken-ness). The rest of you ought to be ashamed.

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Date is stated in the opening post. October 17, 18, and 19, if I remember correctly.

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Originally Posted by AngryTroll

Also, you can be fracking lightweights about beer and no one will be able to make fun of you. Seriously, East Coast = lightweights (except for Nightmare, who drank a whole bunch, and therefore earned his drunken-ness). The rest of you ought to be ashamed.

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I take personal umbrage to this as a matter of regional pride. If you and Pinder show, I'll personally guarantee that no amount of drunkenness will actually result in my losing an argument. Light weights my ass. Go back to your organic all-natural avacado-flavored soy-beers.

It doesn't really represent the entire source though... perhaps do an online kinda thing? And just ship the prizes to the placers?

Having it in NY kinda limits who can go, and does not really deserve to be named the sources tournament... as most people on the source do not live on the east coast (there are plenty of people in the south, west, mid-west, and other countries that could not conceivably play in this event)...

Unless people wanted to make another road trip (the other way)... but I could not do this as I would be back in school :) .. Although I would have gone in a heartbeat (have the money now... would have gone to the batcave event if it did not interfere with another trip).

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Originally Posted by Sanguine Voyeur

I'd love to go to this if I can hop on someone's go-machine there. I'm stranded otherwise.

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We can make that happen. Probably involving some meeting in the city or something. Depends on where I'm living next year, but it will probably end up being Boston.

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Originally Posted by Swing4Five

Awesome, I think I may have to make the trip.
I'm in Dedham (Boston Area) for those thinking of carpooling.

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Done and done. We'll talk more as the tourney approaches.

Fatefully, the five year anniversary of The Source falls on a Saturday.

THE DATE WILL BE SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 2008. THE TOURNAMENT WILL BE HELD SOMEWHERE IN

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

Nightmare and I will secure all the details later, just write that date down.

The prize support for this event will be the sickest ever. There will be NO POWER given away at this event. I never believed in giving away Vintage prizes for a Legacy event. Black bordered stuffs and Alpha/Bets stuffs will be given away for sure!!

...and actually I just talked with Nightmare on the phone and apparently people have already started to contribute to the cause. So let's get amped up for this, we want it BIGGER than the $1000 tourney last weekend!

You guys should post this on other sites. Do it in the Legacy section and tournament section at SSG.com, TMD, Salvation, and any other sites you can think of.